Boring crap clearly designed by a marketing department. Some good ideas going nowhere.

This is one of those where you can tell there were 19 different drafts over the years, and you get to enjoy little bits of them all...

Chucky as a rogue AI might sound good on paper, but it turns out it's stupid. A killer doll can be fun and scary. Killer AI can be fun and scary. But if you've got a killer AI, controlling cars, shutting doors, changing thermostats, flying drones around...well, what's the point of the doll?

The new Chucky looks dumb and Dourif > Hamill.

It might be bigger, slicker, and gorier than some of the franchise, but for me, this was easily the worst Chucky movie.

I've been avoiding it like the plague. Chucky looks ridiculous.

Quoted from Heretic Chucky as a rogue AI might sound good on paper, but it turns out it's stupid. A killer doll can be fun and scary. Killer AI can be fun and scary.

I thought that was Small Soldiers

I've never seen Chucky. I prefer the psychological doll movies. This one is trying really hard to make some easy money from the franchise sales. It's just a shame they don't try so hard to make a decent story.

*Mild spoilers ahead*

Not sure how to feel about this one. I liked the movie well enough for what it was, but the whole thing did feel like a Small Soldiers sequel. It also seemed to take quite a bit of influence from horror movies and shows like It and Stranger Things with a cast primarily composed of kids, which is a fad that's starting to wear a little thin for me.

That said, the original series was by no means high art or precious to me (just disposable popcorn entertainment) so this movie could've done very little to offend or repel me, to be honest.

I didn't find the movie boring, but I did find it fairly forgettable. Mark Hamill did a good job with what he had, but because Chucky was just an AI this time around his whole character felt a bit stunted. And like someone else said, the fact that Chucky can control SO MUCH of the stuff around him after some pervert fiddles with his programming makes Chucky feel more like a disembodied entity, i.e. more Siri-gone-insane than a killer doll.

Quoted from Heretic It might be bigger, slicker, and gorier than some of the franchise, but for me, this was easily the worst Chucky movie.

Worse than Seed!? No way, no how. I don't believe it.

Quoted from Zack Worse than Seed!? No way, no how. I don't believe it.

Ha that's probably fair. It was a better movie than Seed, but I liked it less.

I more or less enjoyed this one. I went in fully aware that this wasn't connected to the original series canon-wise, so I tried to judge it on its own terms. I found it gets away with a lot given that it doesn't take itself seriously at all and fully embraces the stupidity and awkwardness of the new Chucky design, which is not only horrendous (even compared to the 80s) but fully anachronistic (no tech company in its right mind would ever release a product baring even the slightest resemblance to this abomination in 2019). Many an absurd, bizarre narrative turn is borne as a result.

Still, very clunky with its ridiculousness being harnessed to varying degrees of success. Not sure if I'd watch again. Certainly wouldn't opt for it over any of the original sequels. Also...

Quoted from Heretic It might be bigger, slicker, and gorier than some of the franchise...

Definitely not gorier. In fact, I thought it skimped on the gore pretty substantially in the second half.

Why bother watching something you know you're not going to enjoy?

Quoted from DustinBowcot Why bother watching something you know you're not going to enjoy?

Not sure if this was directed at me. I did in fact expect to enjoy this in any case. I knew it wasn’t canon, but that wasn’t necessarily an issue for me. I didn’t think the doll would look quite so bad though.

It is directed at everybody. This has been a bullshit franchise for a while now. It's obvious that the next one and the one after will be total shite. People know this, yet still they go out of their way to watch it. It seems they do this just to confirm what they already knew.

^ I see Chucky as having a reasonably good track record. Seed's bad, but it tried something different, and 3 is humdrum but not terrible. The rest are pretty good for killer doll movies, in my opinion.

Quoted from James McClung Definitely not gorier. In fact, I thought it skimped on the gore pretty substantially in the second half.

Yeah, this was one of many disappointments. I guess I just meant they had the budget to do some actually effective gore, in contrast to some of the cheaper sequels. But you're right, not gorier. This was especially a letdown in the big scene in act three, which seemed like an obvious opportunity to throw in some creative kills.